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[Squirt]

Mental Retardation is the term used in the USA for people with mental disabilities..
Theres nothing wrong with calling a mentally challenged person Retarded, its the context that it is used in that most seem to find offensive.

[Hydralisk]

no matter what race they are, they should be thrown in jail

[Azilius]

I just love the fact that all you guys are calling her a retard! Idiots!

I don't think anyone is calling the woman a retard, but people did call the offenders retards which is just as bad in this case.

Common sense went directly out the window in this topic..

[TheDrop]

I just love the fact that all you guys are calling her a retard! Idiots!

the irony...

Spoiler!

In 19th and early 20th century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation. In the early 1900s, Dr. Henry H. Goddard proposed a classification system for mental retardation based on the Binet-Simon concept of mental age. Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.[9] IQ, or intelligence quotient, is determined by dividing a person's mental age, as determined by standardized tests, by their actual age. The term "idiot" was used to refer to people having an IQ below 30.

In current medical classification, these people are now said to have profound mental retardation.

[Mirosuke]

Mental Retardation is the term used in the USA for people with mental disabilities..
Theres nothing wrong with calling a mentally challenged person Retarded, its the context that it is used in that most seem to find offensive.

Yeah, that's why I find stupid people using "Retard" as an offensive adjective.

[_Clitrix_]

Two topics, both same name? *facepalm*